Hans Bethe
German-American nuclear physicist
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Bethe cracked how stars actually work—figured out the nuclear fusion powering them in the 1930s, then spent decades at Cornell cementing his place across nuclear physics, astrophysics, and quantum mechanics. Nobel Prize, 1967.
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Hans Albrecht Eduard Bethe was a German-American physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. For most of his career, Bethe was a professor at Cornell University.
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